On July 1, 1946, the " Metallurgical Laboratory " was formally re-chartered as Argonne National Laboratory for " cooperative research in nucleonics . " At the request of the U . S . Atomic Energy Commission, it began developing nuclear reactors for the nation's peaceful nuclear energy program.
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In 1981, Usmani published the influential technical article at the " " Nucleonics Week " an influential European nuclear publication claiming that the atomic bomb project has been failed and is unlikely ever to be capable of producing even the crudest of nuclear devices; therefore the programme is near collapse.
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In 1963 the American Institute of Electrical Engineers ( AIEE ) merged with the IRE to form the IEEE, and the AIEE Nucleonics Committee and the Committee on Nucleaonic and Radiation Instruments merged with the IRE Professional Group on Nuclear Science on October 29, 1963, to become the Nuclear Science Group of the IEEE.
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The design of ML-1 was driven by the requirements of the customer, i . e ., the Army, which wanted a turbine transportable by aircraft ( having a low weight and being a cargo container in size ) which led the engineers of Aerojet-General Nucleonics, the principal contractor, to make unusual design choices.
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First, normal moderator materials ( carbon, water ) add bulk and mass which is not desirable in a spacecraft . Second, for reasons of nucleonics the fuel must be enriched, but not to the point where it is weapons grade ( about 5 percent U-235 in this design, whereas weapons grade is some figure above 75 percent ).
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When ( Berkeley Nucleonics ) found this out, they tried to cooperate with the government to fix any problem and, for that, they get indicted . " The company stated that the existing customer in India had been purchasing the same product for over 20 years, and the change in US export requirements in 1998 caused all shipments to this customer to require a license.
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Screening of all types ( pedestrians, cargo, conveyor belts, shipping containers, vehicles, etc . ) often requires accurate isotopic identification to differentiate concerning materials from non-concerning materials ( medical isotopes in patients, naturally occurring radioactive materials, etc . ) Heavy R & D and deployment of instruments utilizing LaBr 3 is expected in the upcoming years . ( List of companies who manufacture commercial off-the-shelf Radiation Isotope Identifiers for Homeland Security : Canberra Industries, ORTEC, Berkeley Nucleonics, spectra sample and spectroscopy example ])
